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Impairment vs Defacement - What's the difference?

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Impairment is a related term of defacement.


As nouns the difference between impairment and defacement

is that impairment is the result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor while defacement is an act of defacing]]; an instance of visibly marring or [[disfigure|disfiguring something.

impairment

English

Alternative forms

* empairment (rare)

Noun

(wikipedia impairment) (en noun)
  • The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor.
  • (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

    • defacement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of defacing]]; an instance of visibly marring or [[disfigure, disfiguring something.
    • Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
  • An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
    • The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
  • (heraldry, vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

    • Usage notes

    * Defacement generally has negative valence (that is, it is a bad thing), except in heraldry, where it is a neutral term.

    Synonyms

    * (act of defacing ): disfiguration, graffiti, obliteration, vandalism * (nullification of face value ): cancellation, devaluation